A Rhetorical Analysis Of A Podcast

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Sarah made this podcast interesting by used different techniques to grasp the audience’s attention. This has had a very positive impact on the overall story and how the audience perceived it. Sarah also shares similar personalities with Deidre, which allowed her to ask the bold questions people won’t usually dare to.
There are a lot of ways to be evocative, Sarah has done this in various ways. Being evocative does not just mean choosing your words correctly to draw pictures in peoples mind, but also the background music, tone of voice, timing of information you provide to the audience and a lot of other different factors contribute to this value. Sarah utilized this factors for her advantage in an outstanding manner and that is to be expected,
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When she is asking people of relative connection to the story she plays the interrogator, when she talks to the audience she plays the narrator when she’s looking for information and going through the case over and over again looking for details and slips that people might have missed she’s playing the investigator/ journalist which consists of the majority part of her role. But she can’t just switch from one role to the other with a snap of finger, she goes down to the detail, meaning she changes almost every aspect of how she presents the story to the audience. These can be the background music, her tone of voice and generally the mood she …show more content…
Even though this is informal and unexpected of a professional journalist, it is completely fine in this case. That is because these type of informalities build connections with the audience and gives a feeling that the listeners are not listening to a robot ramble about a case, hence building a relationship. She also builds a relationship with the audience by giving of the impression that she herself is learning things along with the audience as she proceeds with the story. This helps form attachments with the audience, because, as humans, we tend to be more attached with people most similar to us. That is the same reason why you won’t see a ten year old hanging out with a forty year old. It’s not that we have anything against people who are not like us, but rather since we tend to think that they are going through what we are going through or the idea if a sharing

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